No, that headline is not a joke. It's real. And very very strange.
An Australian man has taken marrying your "best friend" to a whole new level. He's now hitched to his dog.
Joseph Guiso, 20, married his 5-year-old golden Labrador Retriever named "Honey" in an elaborate wedding ceremony at a park in Toowoomba.
Thirty of Guiso's friends and family attended the ceremony, which concluded with the groom getting down on one knee and planting a kiss on his four-legged bride.Guiso says the relationship is purely platonic and that the wedding was a light-hearted way to celebrate with friends.
The only thing that could have made this story any stranger would be if Guiso changed his name to Captain Awesome.
Not that the former Douglas Allen Smith Jr. is a newcomer to Lane County.
He was born here in 1983. He graduated from Willamette High School in 2002.
But he officially became Captain Awesome only last month, when a Lane County Circuit Court judge approved his name change petition.
And what about Captain Awesome's new signature?
Mitchell also allowed Awesome to change his official signature to a right-pointing arrow, a smiley face and a left-pointing arrow. The state Department of Motor Vehicles actually accepted the cheerful new signature.
Now the real question will be what Brandon will change his name to now that Captain Awesome has been used? Perhaps after January 7th he'll change it to Swoop.
And here I thought all the weirdos lived in Portland.
SEATTLE - The bride wore white - stained with blood. The groom was disemboweled. And the wedding party lurched and stumbled through the ceremony, some holding detached body parts.
It was a zombie wedding, held at the first annual ZomBCon Saturday night at Seattle's Experience Music Project.
The "zombies" weren't the actual living dead. But the ceremony was the real thing.
Oh my. Why didn't I think of this? Oh right, cause I'm not crazy.
Talk about strange news from the outdoor world. I was reading some of the many outdoor blogs that I follow, when I came across this:
Mark this down in the strange but true wildlife tales. Ron Goade, president of SSI Technologies in Edmond, and his wife, Susie, were playing golf this month in Scottsdale, Ariz., when they witnessed three mule deer does tree a full grown male bobcat.
The Goades were walking to the 10th tee at the Desert Mountain Golf Course when three does chasing a bobcat raced in front of them.
“The bobcat flew up the tree as the deer stood guard,” said Ron Goade, who took some photographs with the camera on his cell phone.
The deer stood hissing at the bobcat in the tree.
“I don’t know what happened before that, but he didn’t want any part of the deer,” Ron Goade said. “We speculate the bobcat was trying to grab a fawn from a herd of fawns and mothers.”
The Goades watched for about 10 minutes but neither the bobat or mule deer would budge, so they decided to play on.
“It was an incredible sight,” he said. “You just never see a deer chasing a bobcat.”
That would have been the craziest thing to see. All I can say is: Herbivores 1, Carnivores 0
Now many people in the world never get outside of their bubble. And by bubble I mean the area where they feel safe. They have their houses, their cars, their jobs and back to their houses. Now think of all the things these people miss.
Take these creatures for example. What a site they would be to see!
No joke. That is the creature. Often called the Mexican Walking Fish. He is pretty darn happy looking. And for a walking fish, pretty darn cute. Just look at that smile. Nobody tell him that his species is on the Endangered list and that thanks to many non-native fish in his habitat, he probably won't last much longer.
Yes, it is a real thing. And a very, very, very strange thing. Did I mention very? (Oh, and beware those of weak stomachs)
These Voodoo wasps lay their eggs inside of young caterpillars. Because yes, the wasps are parasitoid. The eggs hatch and then the young wasps live inside the caterpillar on its bodily fluids.
When the wasps are fully grown they eat through the caterpillars skin and attach their cocoons to a nearby branch.
Now ready for the really strange part? The caterpillar doesn't die. Instead it stays near the cocoons and for some reason protects them from other creatures.
Watch it here.
So yeah, once the wasps come out, the caterpillar dies. I told you it was strange.
Now what do each of these things have in common?
Come on. Guess.
Well, if you said all FOUR of them are odd, then yes. You got it correct.
Yes, the Zombie caterpillar, underwater alien, and horror frog are very strange. But so are the people who sit around and refuse to go explore their world.
Besides, you never know what crazy animal you may run into.
A Spokane, Washington woman and her mother are in trouble (and I mean BIG trouble) for attempting to sneak a rhesus monkey into the United States from Thailand.
But the way they tried to pull it off is priceless:
Gypsy Lawson, 29, hid the sedated young rhesus macaque under her blouse, pretending to be pregnant when she successfully passed through U.S. Customs in Los Angeles after a trip to Bangkok, Thailand.
Secondly, why did she want the monkey so bad? My guess is so she could train it to dance on the top of her hot dog stand.
Well, the court didn't think the monkey prank was funny.
The two women were found guilty Monday by a 12-member jury on separate charges of conspiracy and smuggling goods into the United States. Sentencing is set for March 3.
The monkey is now at a primate rescue facility in Oregon.
Man, I wish I had a monkey. If you could have one pet (without getting in trouble like Gypsy) what animal would it be?
